Two initiatives led by ISGlobal will be boosted by the EIT Health, an institution backed by the European Union and aimed at promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in health. The ENERGHY and SAFE projects will be framed in the EIT Health Campus program, which aims to provide up-to-date knowledge and skills to turn the brightest learners into the future healthcare leaders of Europe.

The projects led by ISGlobal belong to two different fields. ENERGHY (Energizing Global Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship) has as its backbone the training of entrepreneurs in global health. It is a summer school that will bring together professionals to work on real cases of innovation and will train them in business skills for sustainable social innovation. By overcoming several challenges, ENERGHY participants will develop the knowledge needed to design new, solid and potentially fruitful business models.

The SAFE (Superbug Awareness For Education) project focuses on antimicrobial resistance. This initiative will provide postgraduate, master and doctorate students with the essential skills to educate secondary school students in the field of microbiology. Thus, the participants will carry out trainings including the isolation of strains and search for antibacterial activity from natural sources like, for example, soil. These students will participate in activities organized at science festivals and during the World Antibiotic Awareness Week, as well as addressing gamification methods, such as the Micro-Combat card game, designed by ISGlobal. One of the activities proposed in the SAFE project is a competition among the participating high school students. Winners will have the opportunity to make a stay at Roche Diagnostics with the aim of enriching the knowledge acquired.

On the other hand, the EIT Health has renewed the funding of three ISGlobal projects: CALMA-2, a therapeutic and supportive education program for patients suffering from dyspnea; SHEBUCAR, a summer school aimed at identifying the current challenges of health organizations and training participants to transform innovative ideas and solutions into business plans or start-ups, and AMR-DetectTool, emerged as a continuation of the BL-DetecTool project and focused on a new tool to combat antimicrobial resistance.

On its 2019 call, the EIT Health has received 276 applications. All of the projects went through strict eligibility checks and intensive remote and face-to-face evaluations with external experts. Only those proposals considered outstanding for the entity's Business Plan 2020 succeeded.

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